Farms: Green Bronx Machine -- growing our way into a new economy: Stephen Ritz at TEDxManhattan
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http://www.tedxmanhattan.org/2012talks Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx teacher/administrator. With the help of extended student and community family they have grown over 25,000 pounds of vegetables in the Bronx while generating extraordinary academic performance. His Bronx classroom features the first indoor edible wall in NYC DOE which routinely generates enough produce to feed 450 students healthy meals and trains the youngest nationally certified workforce in America. Stephen has consistently moved attendance from 40% to 93% daily, helped fund/create 2,200 youth jobs, captured the US EPA Award for transforming mindsets and landscapes in NYC, recently won the ABC Above and Beyond Award, helped earn his school the first ever Citywide Award of Excellence from the NYC Strategic Alliance for Health and attributes these results directly to growing vegetables in school. His speech at Columbia University, "From Crack to Cucumbers," along with the release of a You-Tube Video (Urban Farming NYC) resulted in a national following including an invite to the White House Garden. Dedicated to harvesting hope and cultivating minds, Stephen dreams of opening a nationally replicable Career Technical Education public school in the poorest Congressional District in America rooted in urban agriculture, green and sustainable initiatives. For more information, visit www.greenbronxmachine.com More information at http://www.tedxmanhattan.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Wow, this lecture is full of dangerous superior, inferior stereotyping; talk about bigoted conditioning as the unintended side effect of charity. Although easily disguised through fast talk, Stephen Ritz constantly associates characteristics such as poor, immigrant, grafiti making, over procreating, homeless, can't be "white," with mostly Mexican but also other Latin Americans. What is more, although the exact word is "brownfield," Mr. Ritz quickly spews out this list―black-field, brownfield, toxic-waste-field, battlefield―thus associating toxic waste and violence with the terms, black and brown. This same insidious, subliminal technique was cleverly used by the Nazis to grow bigotry against the Jews. So, although, on the surface, this lecture appears to be about a helpful NGO that is addressing the needs of the poor, dig deeper, because deeper is where the danger lies; deeper is the root-cause of bigotry; deeper are the subliminal bigoted associations that are insidiously conditioning the minds of powerful men like Donald Trump.
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13:24 best quote ever:
So here, and at a time where we´ve gone from the audacity to hope to hope for some audacity, I urge u to do something. -
I love his passion. But the are many reasons for things, just not "why not". Why not try to teach kids agriculture and to build a farm in your backyard? Why not try to kids engineering and manufacture a Chevrolet in your backyard? Some places are better suited than others depending on the task. Last summer I spent $95 for what was a jar of bad salsa.
Love what he's done for those kids. Just be realistic. -
Puttting the blacks back on the farm.
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What a touching video! Love it! We need more people like him in our communities!!!!
BTW...why would anyone give him a thumbs down?? They are cray-cray.... -
Wow. Fantastic!
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the next Rafe Esquith has spoken!
Bravo sir! -
Howie Mandell your twin is calling, Crack it does a body good.
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Wow, so much energy and passion! love him!
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love this guy. met him this weekend
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Stephen Ritz is an inspirational genius. The Bronx will be a better place
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Love it...!!!♠
Si se poede...!!! -
wow. great job!
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Remarkable!!!!!!!! Thank you for the inspiration!!!!
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"take time to smell the flowers" from one of the few guys whose TED talk is not comprehensible at 1.5x speed. : )
Good talk though. -
Transport sport is green, we could use more of it. We hope to have Steve review some ideas we have please reach out.
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Wow, a great talk by a true hero and you want to parse down a super minor detail. Hey, when you hear someone yell "you'se guys get out, deres a fi-yah" you just stand there and worry about the grammar. SHEESH!
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THERE IS ONLY ONE STEVE RITZ! My life is better because he is in it.
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Stephen's presentation in Traverse City was phenomenal.
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